I am just digging into a transom rebuild this winter and have the canundrum of seacast or wood. Based on my tapping with a ball peen and what I can see between the cap and the hull my transom is rotted across the very top and the upper left quadrant. It doesn’t flex and it doesn’t leak brown goo but there is no way I could sell it. My first question is:
if if I cut the top of the cap like you would do with seacast could I just epoxy in a new wood trans instead of pouring one? I run on rivers alot and want the strongest most forgiving option. This assumes I’m lucky and my and my knees and stringers are good. With the rot hopefully starting up so high I think I’m good.